Welcome to Animal Jam-a virtual world for kids where they can discover real-world plant and animal facts, plus follow enriching storylines paired with National Geographic's multimedia educational content!
Animal Jam features a full spectrum of play that caters to young kids at all skill levels and developmental stages. With constantly evolving educational content, your child can join a community featuring fun activities and games, as well as chat with online friends in a safe and moderated environment.
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Arcademic Skill Builders are online educational video games that offer a powerful approach to learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills.
New features allows teachers to track student progress. Free trial currently available.
Here is a great article with links to sites that offer free educational videos This is the 1st time I am using Diigo to share and hope I am doing it successfully. Kimberly
On the whole, there are too many apps focused on rote learning and simple number facts and equations. Having said that, I actually believe the iPad has much to offer teachers and students in Mathematics.
The good news from my perspective is that the iPad already is ready to replace textbooks and make Maths an engaging real world experience.
Whether you choose Explain Everything, ShowMe, Educreations or ScreenChomp (depending on price, features or usability), using these apps to record children’s learning is a killer feature of the iPad for me.
If you are lucky enough to have access to an AppleTV and a full set of iPads, the whole class can switch from one student’s iPad screen to another to participate in an engaging real time discussion without waiting for their turn on the interactive whiteboard.
Their recordings can be saved and posted to blogs or other online options to share with outside audiences, with possibilities of feedback or collaboration.
Amazing possibilities for math I think with the apps discussed in this blog. Love the idea of students recording how they solved math problem on an iPad and then sharing with the class via the interactive white board. Wow!